Are you an audiophile?

I'd like to be an audiophile, but I can't afford good equipment. I can very easily detect the difference in any mp3 less than 320kbps, and I can also very easily detect a poorly mastered CD when I hear "clipping".

My father's also an audiophile. We don't get along for shit, but over the years it's been discovered we have similar tastes in music. He's also obsessed with video equipment. He has so many DVD players, CD players, standalone writers, speakers, amps, etc. Drives my mother crazy.

What gets me is that even though I can tell low quality from high, I have trouble adjusting, say, an equalizer so that it sounds just right. It's almost like I can set it several different ways and music will sound just as good as before but merely different. I mostly just set the treble and bass high and leave it at that.

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Yes you do. All you need is like a 250GB hard drive and an internet connection~

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well Christ, I'd imagine maybe you'd but time into downloading some good music once in a while, not just shitty music.

Also, you don't have to back up stuff if you don't want to; it's really up to you.

"Nice, clean, precise harddrive." You know they're meant to be filled up with files, right.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well mp3s are old technology and were not meant to be used forever. Nevertheless, people refuse to move past them. Especially since drive space becomes more and more of a non-issue, no reason not to just encode mp3s as 320kbps and have them be supported by pretty much anything than encode in ogg. I actually see m4a used more often these days than ogg.

But I don't think we should restrict this thread to the talk of audio regarding computers.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I store all my stuff on my drive I've got a TB of space so I see no reason not to. I back them up to DVD and burn them to CD-RW when I want to listen to them off my PC. If I burned all my stuff to CD, it'd be like 300 CDs. As if I don't have enough random spindles of burned shit all over my room.

I was speaking idiomatically.